Whether you think the Los Angeles City Council has moved too fast or too slow to raise the minimum wage probably depends on whether you’re sold on the proposal to nearly double the pay of workers at large, non-union hotels to $15.37 an hour.

Opponents of the plan feared the council was angling for a hasty vote this week. Meanwhile, proponents see L.A. falling behind the pace set by other liberal cities like Seattle, whose council approved a virtually across-the-board $15-an-hour minimum earlier this month, and San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors just placed a measure to raise the minimum to $15 on the November ballot.

Both sides have a point. Six months after the L.A. proposal by council members Mike Bonin, Nury Martinez and Curren Price Jr. was first reported, it hasn’t received the public scrutiny a plan of such importance demands.

A full council vote now would have been a mistake. The ordinance almost certainly would have passed, and Mayor Eric Garcetti has said he would sign it. But that would have confirmed the widespread belief that politically connected interests can get their way at City Hall without going through all of the proper processes. The politically connected interests, in this case, would be labor unions, who would benefit from the law in a round-about way.

And it would have put into effect a law that may go too far or may not go far enough — but which L.A. residents haven’t heard enough debate about to know.

The current proposal is to phase in a $15.37 minimum wage, requiring it by July 2015 at hotels with 300 or more rooms and by July 2016 in hotels with 125 or more rooms; the dollar figure is pegged to a 1999 wage ordinance applying to LAX workers. That’s up from the $8 minimum required by state law.

The new minimum would apply only to non-union hotels. This would be a boon to union organizers because it would create an incentive for hotel owners to sign union contracts.

Naturally, unions support the proposal and business groups oppose it, including the San Fernando Valley Industry and Commerce Association and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

Meanwhile, a study by the Blue Sky Consulting Group, commissioned by the city, was inconclusive about whether the net benefits would outweigh the costs for the local economy. Yes, some low-wage workers would make more money and presumably spend more; but some major hotels facing higher expenses might lay off workers, trim improvements or go out of business.

Then there’s the big question: If a higher minimum wage for some hotel workers is a good idea, why not enact it for as many L.A. workers as possible?

Despite the doubts, the City Council’s Economic Development Committee, chaired by Price, last week signed off on the hotel-workers plan and directed the City Attorney’s Office to draft an ordinance, including a provision for hotels to apply for a hardship waiver. But committee Vice Chairman Paul Krekorian smartly called for more economic analysis.

Backers of the minimum-wage plan must do more to remove those doubts and should not push for a City Council vote until they’ve done it.